Word: play
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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GENTLEMEN:- We wish, in behalf of the Harvard University Cricket Club, to challenge Princeton University to play a match game of cricket next spring at Princeton. If Princeton accepts, the date can be arranged later. Hoping we shall soon have a favorable reply, we are Yours very truly...
...first feared. The candidates have been reduced to fifteen and regular training will be commenced next Monday. The ultimate make up of the team will probably be as follows: catchers, Brown lee '89, Brokaw '92 and Brown '92; pitchers; King '89 and Ames '90, one of whom will play short-stop when not in the box; first base, Dana '91; second base, Osburne '90; third base, Knickerbocker, '91; left field, Payne '91; centre, Durell, '89; right, McMillan, '91. Five of these men played on the 'varsity last year and the others have had more or less experience on their class...
McClung, captain of the Exeter nine last year, will probably play at third on the Yale nine...
...Mandolin Club will play at the meeting of the Boston Art Students Association next Friday evening...
Resolved, That for the promotion of good tennis playing, priority of right in the use of four tennis courts on Jarvis Field be given, after April 1st, to sixteen members of the University. who shall play a league match, or series, of singles for the best three in five sets; That the selection of such persons be made by the executive committee with respect only to merits as tennis players; That the right be reserved only for the purpose of playing such a series; That the Association do not contribute for the prizes, unless the selected players...